Post-Foucauldian governmentality: What does it offer critical social policy analysis?

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 465-486

  Mckee, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Foucault; Governing; Power; Resistance

Indexed keywords

POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70349322543     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018309105180     Document Type: Article

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